Charmed

Hollywood is like a vast interrogation room in that anything you say can and will be used against you later on in your career — unless you’re too small a star like Rose McGowan to matter. From Bikini back in 1998:

...Her extant work has hardly catapulted her to the heights of celebrity (though paradoxically, despite her slimmish resume, she’s better known than most “indie” actresses), but she doesn’t seem in a hurry to boost her profile. Nor does it bother her that most of her work has been in independent films thus far.
“I’ve only been acting for three-and-a-half years,” Rose explains. “And basically, unless you’re on Party Of Five, or Buffy The Vampire Slayer....”
I like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, I offer weakly.
“You might want to keep that to yourself. I mean, I’m sure they’re fine shows, and, if I was smart, I would just go get myself hired on one, and then immediately I could be like making big studio pictures. But I also think that might be a shorter term approach, and I’m perfectly okay about [where I am] anyway, since I came into this whole thing kind of accidentally anyway. I’m just kind of wandering through — I mean, I work very hard, but at the same time, it’s not like there’s a plan that you can approach this sort of thing with, ’cause like with any freelance job, you have no idea what the hell’s going on.”

It seems now that, freelance or not, Rose has figured out that the indie world alone is not going to pay the bills, and has switched over to “short term” Plan B: Too late for Party of Five (which is no longer on the air) and Buffy The Vampire Slayer (which is being booted to UPN), Rose has now officially joined Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs in — of all shows — Charmed (after Jennifer Love Hewitt and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen turned the part down). Not the most respected show on the WB lineup, but reportedly one of the more popular ones. All things considered, selling her soul to Aaron Spelling — a man arguably more evil than Marilyn ever pretended to be — was a smart, if overdue, move.

Hey, the girl’s gotta eat.